Sign-Off
Ten client files, one deadline. Find what's wrong, post the correction, and never sign a set of accounts you know is misstated.
The brief
It's busy season and ten client files are on your desk. Each has draft accounts, a file note with what the team found, and a materiality threshold. If the accounts are fairly stated, sign them clean. If they aren't, click the two accounts the correcting entry touches and enter the amount: every correction moves exactly two lines. Some files are clean, one has an error too small to matter, and a few come with pressure to sign. Every file costs hours you don't have many of. Sign a materially wrong set of accounts and your reputation pays for it; lose it entirely and you're struck off.
How you play it
Read the draft accounts and the file note, then click the two lines the correcting entry touches and enter the amount, or sign the accounts clean.
The job: Auditor — The independent outsider who tests a company's accounts and signs an opinion on whether they can be trusted, knowing that investors, lenders and regulators will rely on that signature.
What an auditor actually does →What you're judged on
Every decision is marked to market server-side. These are the meters that move — run one to zero and the simulation ends there.
What it tests
No trivia — the simulation only asks what the chair actually has to know.
Where you learn this
Sign-Off is the finale of Reading the Books, waiting past Level 24 — Sign-Off: The Final Audit. You can sit down right now and find out how much of it you already know; the course is there for the parts you don't.
Play Reading the Books →Other chairs
The Weekend
Sixty-two hours to Tokyo's open. You cannot save everyone — and one of them you cannot lose.
The Structurer
Every note is a bond plus options. Pick the wrong shape and the client finds out at maturity.
The President
Every policy has two halves: what you do, and who pays. The bond market grades the second one.
The Fund
Your product is returns. Your business is assets. They want opposite things.
The First Year
Twelve months on your own. No perfect month — only wiser and poorer ones.
The Newsroom
One shift on the data desk. Every story is a stats trap in disguise.
Mission Control
No options to pick — do the math, key in the number, bring them home.
The Policy Chair
You are the central bank. One rate, every quarter, a whole economy on the line.
The CFO's Chair
You run the firm's capital. Ten board meetings, one question every time: where does the cash go?
The Pit
You run the book. The tape moves, the Greeks bite, margin is real. Survive the session.
Your Own Worst Enemy
The market can't hurt you. You can. Ten moments, one enemy — the one making the decisions.
The Quote
Your quote is two numbers. Everything that happens next is arithmetic.
The Hot Path
Nothing is scripted. The workload is drawn, the cost model is real, and the best answer changes every interval.
The Opponent
Nothing here is scripted. They are running a model of you, and it updates.
The Desk
Run a derivatives desk for one week — it does not stay calm.
Rotation Day
Ten desks, one stack of cards each. Sort them right — and never, ever misfile ethics.
The Expert Witness
Ten regression tables enter evidence. The significant one is usually the trap.
The War Room
The VaR says you're fine. The tail says otherwise. Ten audits — read which one is lying.